Case Study

Apple Cuts Out Contact With Contacts: Smart Move for Privacy

Apple has been lauded for its privacy friendly update to the iOS App store rules to prohibit developers from building a contact database (something Path got nabbed for back in 2012), using information collected via user contacts to communicate with people, or share or sell users’ contacts with third parties. Break these rules and Apple has warned that you may find your app quickly moved from store to the trashbin.